On 1 July 2012 the Mackay Hospital and Health Service commenced operation as an independent statutory body overseen by the Mackay Hospital and Health Board (Mackay HHB).
The Mackay HHB sets the strategic direction and oversees the management of the Mackay Hospital and Health Service. This provides an opportunity to have enhanced local decision making and accountability for the delivery of local health services. The Board is committed to developing ways to involve the community in designing local health service delivery into the future.
The Mackay HHB reports to the Minister for Health and Minister for Ambulance Services and consists of nine independent non-executive Directors, selected by the Governor-in-Council. There are four Committees in place to assist with monitoring the health service’s systems of internal control, financial reporting and clinical safety and quality.
Mr Darryl Camilleri
Acting Chair and Board Member
Mackay Hospital and Health Service 
Mr Darryl Camilleri is the former Deputy Mayor of the Mackay Regional Council and has served as Chairman for a number of community organisations. He is also a Chartered Accountant and has extensive experience in tax planning, finance and audits.
Darryl has been a Chartered Accountant and Managing Partner of Bennett Partners Chartered Accountants since 1987. He is responsible for a large business service portfolio specialising in business acquisitions and taxation services in mining services industries, rural industries and small to large business clients. He was also the Deputy Mayor of the Mackay Regional Council from 2008 to April 2012.
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Darryl’s professional qualifications are:
- Fellow—Institute of Chartered Accountants
- Fellow —Tax Institute of Australia
- Registered Tax Agent
- Registered Company Auditor
- Member—Institute of Company Directors
Mr David Aprile
Board Member
Mackay Hospital and Health Service 
Mr David Aprile is well known in Mackay as the Founding Partner of Mackay Day and Night Pharmacy Group. He has served on many local community and government based boards in Mackay and the surrounding area. He also has extensive management knowledge of management and was recognised as Queensland Manager of the Year (owner operator) from the Australian Institute of Management.
Born and bred in Mackay, David, a qualified pharmacist since 1973, is the founding partner of Mackay Day and Night Pharmacy Group established in 1981. Following the groups expansion into cities out of Mackay he was appointed the Managing Director of Healthpoint Chemist Holdings which operates the Healthpoint Chemist Group of pharmacies. Healthpoint Chemist Group operates six pharmacies in Mackay.
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David is an Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management and the Australian Institute of Pharmacy Management. He received the Medal of Management Excellence Award by the Mackay Branch of the Australian Institute of Management in 2010.
David has served on numerous local community and government based boards over the years including the Central Queensland University Advisory Board and Mackay Chamber of Commerce.
He has a Bachelor of Business from the University of Southern Queensland and is a Certified Practicing Accountant and member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants.
Professor Richard Murray
Board Member
Mackay Hospital and Health Service
Professor Richard Murray is the Dean of the College of Medicine and Dentistry at James Cook University. His career focus has been in rural and remote medicine,
Aboriginal health, public health, tropical medicine, health professional education and the healthcare needs of underserved populations.
He has a national and international profile in rural medical education and rural medicine and has held a range of leadership positions.
Professor Murray is also President of Medical Deans Australia and New Zealand and a past President of the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine.
Prior to joining James Cook University as Planning Director of the Rural Clinical School in 2005, Professor Murray spent 14 years in the remote Kimberley region of Western Australia, including 12 years as the Medical Director of the Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services Council, a position in which he had broad-ranging clinical, population health, teaching, research and medical leadership, and management roles.
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Board Member
Mackay Hospital and Health Service
Mrs Suzanne Brown is a Principal and leading Commercial Solicitor at McKays Solicitors.
She is Mackay’s only Queensland Law Society Business Law Accredited Specialist and one of only 23 in Queensland. When Suzanne completed the course in 2014, she achieved the highest marks in the State and was honoured with a special award by the Chief Justice.
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In 2015, Suzanne was named next to the likes of Darren Lockyer and Bindi Irwin as one of the Courier Mail’s 20 under 40 Business Leaders in Queensland.
From 2012-2015, Suzanne sat as a director of North Queensland Bulk Ports, the leading port authority responsible for the ports of Mackay, Hay Point, Weipa and Abbot Point.
Ms Leeanne Heaton
Board Member
Mackay Hospital and Health Service 
Ms Leeanne Heaton has a diverse range of experience working in healthcare as a registered nurse, registered midwife and paramedic. Leeanne also has experience working in rural and remote parts of Australia as a flight nurse with the Royal Flying Doctor Service. She is a successful author having written three chapters about rural, regional and remote health and legal aspects of healthcare in Australian nursing textbooks. Leeanne has recently co-authored a journal article about the delivery of a transnational nursing education program and presented at conferences nationally and internationally about simulation based learning in healthcare.
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Leeanne has been an academic panel member for the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Accreditation Council (ANMAC) in addition to being co-lead in the successful application and approval of a new Bachelor of Nursing curriculum. She is a member of the Australian College of Nursing (ACN).
Leeanne has a BN, BClinPrac (Paramedic) and MSci (Midwifery). She is currently completing her PhD.
Dr Elissa Hatherly
Board Member
Mackay Hospital and Health Service
Dr Elissa Hatherly has worked in the Mackay Hospital and Health Service area since since 2002.
Having graduated from the University of Queensland with degrees in Medicine and Science (Hons 1st class), Dr Hatherly pursued General Practice training (FRACGP) working in around the Mackay district for several years before settling at Southside Medical Centre.
She has also worked in Women’s Health for the last 15 years. As one of the founding doctors of the Family Planning and Well Women’s Clinic, Dr Hatherly is an enthusiastic advocate for access to specialist women’s health services. Dr Hatherly trained with Family Planning Queensland (now True Relationships and Reproductive Health) and is still involved with training doctors, nurses and students in this field.
Dr Hatherly is an advocate for cancer screening with 12 years at BreastScreen Mackay service and Specialist Outpatients clinical roles.
Her years with James Cook University coordinating medical students in their rural placement afforded Dr Hatherly the opportunity to travel regularly throughout the Mackay HHS district.
Adrienne Barnett
Board Member
Mackay Hospital and Health Service
Adrienne has lived in Mackay for more than half her life, having moved here in 1992 at age 21, after completing a Legal Office Traineeship and working for Grasso Searles Romano Solicitors.
Her Aboriginal heritage is an important part of her identity, and was formed experiencing living in various regional and remote areas in Queensland during childhood.
Adrienne has been employed with the Mackay and District Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Aid Service, Mackay Community Development Employment Program, and Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships, and has had previous governance roles with the Mackay Aboriginal & Islander Community Health Service, Australian Indigenous Communication Association Inc., and Community Media Training Organisation.
She is currently on the governing committees for MurriWatch Inc., the Mackay & District Aboriginal & Islander Media Association Ltd. (my105fm), Kutta Mulla Gorinna Independent School (Mackay), and MARABISDA Inc., and has a passion for social justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Adrienne lives with her partner David and two boys, Gabriel and Deacon.
Helen Caruso
Board Member
Mackay Hospital and Health Service
Mrs Helen Caruso is a Mackay local and a Chartered Accountant with over 25 years’ experience in her field. She has previously held Chief Financial Officer roles with the Pioneer Valley Hospital and a major mining services private company. For the past 14 years she has held the role of Practice Manger of a public accounting and business advisory firm in Mackay where she specialised in the areas of strategy and growth, succession planning, human resources management, and evaluating and implementing new and innovative Information and Communication Technologies.
Helen’s professional qualifications are:
- Member – Institute of Chartered Accountants
- Member – Certified Practicing Accountants
- Registered Tax Agent
- Member – Australian Institute of Company Directors
